Vegetarians are 'less healthy and have a lower quality of life than meat-eaters', scientists say

[Cobra Arbok]

Meat's just sooooo tasty. You haven't lived until you've eaten week old fermented whale blubber... and that's probably because you died trying to stomach boiled sheep's head the week before. Scandinavians can take any meat or fish and turn it into the most rancid thing ever. Who seriously thought fermented fish was a delicacy?

kjøttkaker is nice though. You really can't do meatballs wrong.

I don't think I could make it a day as a vegetarian.



Lol. That's not a health benefit.

I wonder what its like being a vegetarian in Greenland, if there is even such a thing.

 

[Fenrir]

I wonder what its like being a vegetarian in Greenland, if there is even such a thing.

It's got to be hard for sure. There's a reason the Scandinavian countries favor meats and berries. Fish and currants are about the only things that survive this far north.

Joking aside, I've been to Greenland and things actually do grow there. Juniper makes for a great spiced ale or mead and lingonberries are great as a jam, so too with the bearberry and crowberry. Crowberries form an important part of the diets of the Inuit and Sami peoples native to Northern Norway and Canada. But really that's about all that grows in Greenland naturally. You can get carrots to take in certain parts, but it's mostly too cold for anything that isn't a berry.

Billberries near Rolige Brae Glacier, Scoresbysund, East Greenland

Crowberries near the Eqip Sermia glacier

With caribou, hare, whale, seal, cod, halibut, char and salmon so plentiful there wasn't much use, or availability in the diets of early Greenlanders in the way of vegetation.

Today trade it's far easier. The navies of Denmark, which administers Greenland, and Norway regularly make trips to the more remote settlements in Greenland, which is already pretty darn remote.

 

[Mugwop]

I am not depressed. I am having fun triggering trolls on this forum

You are depressed it's ok I and @Nilgiri are here for you.

Their diet is one dimensional and unhealthy. Lots of fried foods, refined carbohydrates and animal fats in their diet, generally speaking. The amount of oil they add to their vegetarian dishes(and I'm not even speaking of kebabs) will make you cringe. Food loses most of its micronutrients if prepared in such a way.

Can you name some of it? Not trying to butt heads with you just curious.

 

[namefield_empty]

You are depressed it's ok I and @Nilgiri are here for you.


Can you name some of it? Not trying to butt heads with you just curious.

Starting with an example, leafy greens are one of healthiest foods low in calories and high in fibre and micronutrients. While the rest of the world eats them raw in salads, stir fried/blanched for a short time, Pakistani(and Indian, in some cases too) way of cooking is to boil them long enough to ensure that heat labile nutrients are no longer bioavailable. As if that was not enough, the greens are then cooked even more in dollops of saturated fat only to be finished off by a splattering of tadka. Food prepared thus way would definitely taste great, but in this day and age where most have a sedentary lifestyle this invites trouble. I am not complaining though, not one bit!

 

[Chhatrapati]

First of all I am Iyer....

Semantics.

Y'all are on the same un-reserved boat in India. Don't care your forehead has a vibhooti or the three line.

I have strayed off the path big time

Siva! Siva!
Ever heard of Puyavaaha Narakam.

 

[Mugwop]

Starting with an example, leafy greens are one of healthiest foods low in calories and high in fibre and micronutrients. While the rest of the world eats them raw in salads, stir fried/blanched for a short time, Pakistani(and Indian, in some cases too) way of cooking is to boil them long enough to ensure that heat labile nutrients are no longer bioavailable. As if that was not enough, the greens are then cooked even more in dollops of saturated fat only to be finished off by a splattering of tadka. Food prepared thus way would definitely taste great, but in this day and age where most have a sedentary lifestyle this invites trouble. I am not complaining though, not one bit!

I am not disagreeing with you but all I know is how spinach "palak" is cooked in Pakistan ruins the taste and everything.